Improvement in fire-kindlers



NITED S'I'AfI'Es PATENT Orr'rcn V ROLLIN O. LEWIS, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALE HIS RIGHT TO EDWARD G. BOYER, OF l SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-KINDLERS.

specification formin g part of Letters Patent No. 180,248, dated Jn1y 25, 1876; application filed May 15, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ROLLIN O. LEWIS, of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire-Kiudlers and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same! This invention relates to that class of firekindlers which are composed of a rod or handle sustainingla shell or cap containing some non-combustible absorbent for retaining the,

lighter hydrocarbon oils.

My improvement consists in the structure of the shell and the mannel' of attachiug the rod thereto to efi'ect both silnplicity and durability.

To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I Would thus proceed to describe it, ret'erring to the accompanyin g drawing, ii which- Figure 1 represents my improved fire-kindler in elevation. Fig. 2 is a central section of the shell, in the line ot' the handle.

Most ki'ndlers ot' this class at present in use are made of cast-irou, which cannot be subjected to a high degree of heat without melting; and hence they Eare, on this account, objcctionable.

That part of my kindler which is exposed to the fiames I propose to make as follows: I take a piece of Wire, preferably of Wroughtiron, and coil it into a conoidal shape, A, With the coils almost touching each other, as represented. I then slip a cap, B, of either castor wrought metal, upon the rod b, and upon it the Wire cone A, the rod being passed centrally through both. The cap and cone are then filled with asbestus or some incombustible 'absorbentmaterial, and the base of -the cone is inserted into the top of the cap, which is formed with a shoulder on its inner side to receive one or two coils of the coue. The parts are then held together by riveting the top of the rod O, as seen at a, Fig. 2, and by swelling the rod just under the cap by ham- I am aware that fire-kindlers composed of perforated cast-iron cylinders, inclosin g asbestus, have been employed, and` therefore I make no claim to the principle embodied; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

The herein-described fire-kindler, consisting of the Wire oonoid A,'the cap B, containing asbestus or any incombustible absorbent material, and the handle O, the parts being arranged and united substantialiy as and for the purpose specified.

Witness niy hand this 9th day of May, A. D. 1876.

4 ROLLIN O. LEWIS.

,5 Witnesses:

OHAs. M. PEcK, WM. RI'rcHIE.

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